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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
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quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Few lives have left so vivid an impression upon a native
environment as that of James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier Poet. His
folksy, down-home rhymes are still enormously popular in his native
state and beyond. This publication brings back into print the
complete Riley repertoire of more than 1,000 poems, including such
all-time favorites as "Little Orphant Annie" (far and away the
best-loved of all Riley characters), "The Raggedy Man," "Our Hired
Girl," "A Barefoot Boy," "The Bumblebee," "Granny," and "When the
Frost Is on the Punkin."
It is said that Indiana s best-known poet did not portray but
invented the typical Hoosier. Applying imaginative skill, Riley
altered and adapted the people around him to suit his purpose. As
Jeannette Covert Nolan once put it, the figure who emerged was "a
mellow, humorous rustic, a quaint, bucolic philosopher, unlettered
but gifted with an earthy shrewdness, a peasant wisdom, a heart of
gold, speaking a drawling, hybrid tongue, a dubious dialect as yet
unidentified by any philologist."
In his heyday Riley was famous all over the world. Though often
called a children s poet, he actually wrote about children for
adults, delighting in emotional reminders of an irretrievable past
perhaps one that never quite existed. Throughout his life Riley
looked back wistfully and sentimentally upon his childhood days,
turning the longings and unfulfilled dreams of youth into verse. So
celebrated was he in Indiana that in many public elementary
schools, students were required to memorize and recite one of his
poems every week for admiring audiences of visiting parents.
If I Knew What Poets Know
If I knew what poets know, Did I know what poets do, If I knew what
poets know,
Would I write a rhyme Would I sing a song, I would find a
theme
Of the buds that never blow Sadder than the pigeon s coo Sweeter
than the placid flow
In the summer-time? When the days are long? Of the fairest
dream:
Would I sing of golden seeds Where I found a heart in pain, I would
sing of love that lives
Springing up in ironweeds? I would make it glad again; On the
errors it forgives:
And of rain-drop turned to snow, And the false should be the true,
And the world would better grow
If I knew what poets know? Did I know what poets do. If I knew what
poets know.
James Whitcomb Riley
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